Vikram Alva
Project Group Leader (Protein Bioinformatics)
Stuttgart Region Germany
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Top SchoolVikram Alva is a project group leader in protein bioinformatics with over a decade of experience building and maintaining widely used computational resources, most notably the MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit. He combines deep expertise in protein sequence and structure analysis with practical software engineering skills across C++, Scala, Perl, Python, R and Linux-based cluster computing. Vikram leads a research-driven engineering group at the Max Planck Institute, translating machine learning and big-data analytics into robust tools for the life sciences. His background spans academia and industry, from early software roles at Infosys to long-term research positions that culminated in a PhD-level specialization in bioinformatics at Tübingen. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic object-oriented design and high-availability web services that support global bioinformatics workflows. He is based in the Stuttgart region and maintains active teaching and collaboration links through an adjunct role at IBAB.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate diploma in bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, Postgraduate diploma in bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB)Ph.D., Bioinformatics/Informatics, Ph.D., Bioinformatics/Informatics at University of TübingenB.Eng., Computer Science, B.Eng., Computer Science at N M A M Institute of Technology, NITTE
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tulu, German
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Github Skills (26)
web-application10
ansible-collections10
structural-biology10
open-source10
mpi10
akka10
zeal10
bioinformatics10
protein-structure10
genomics10
computational-biology10
reactive-programming10
typescript8
nginx6
cdi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
proteinevolution/clans
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
proteinevolution/Toolkit
Mar 2016 - Nov 2022
The MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit
Contributions:12 reviews, 2541 commits, 177 PRs in 6 years 9 months
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